Pithy Prose: The Wit and Wisdom of Eric Hoffer Eric Hoffer was a largely self-educated dockworker and migrant farm labourer. In his middle years he turned to writing. 'The True Believer', a study of fanaticism and mass movements, has become a classic because of Hoffer's penetrating insights and 'pithy prose'. These are quotations that say more in one or two sentences than could be expressed in a thousand-word treatise. They are like pouring a Keywords:
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